The future of the past of media art

Rewire, held in Liverpool in September this year, was the fourth instalment of the media arts histories conferences established by Oliver Grau in 2005 under the title Re:fresh. Like Re:place (2007) and Re:live (2009), the Rewire Conference brought together artists, academics and curators from a wide array of media art backgrounds to examine, debate and argue about the past, present and future of what many still (strangely) feel are marginal art practices.